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Eric Sondheimer wins CPSWA award

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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The California Preps Sportswriters Assn. has awarded The Times’ Eric Sondheimer best column of the year for a story on Los Angeles Cathedral receiver Kyle Merrill.

Merrill’s brother, Matthew, was killed in a car accident involving an alleged drunk driver on Kyle Merrill’s birthday in December 2006. Kyle Merrill was also riding in the car at the time.

Football helped Merrill get past an ordeal that originally made him question his faith. The column can be read here.

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Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.†He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters†as the “Worst of the Week†after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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